Mattias Lindberg

I use a separate VPC image for each customer I work with as it makes sense to isolate customer from each other, otherwise you may end up with doing a demo for one customer and suddently the branding for the other customer suddently appear on the Settings...

This may be a bit too simple for most SharePoint developers but as I struggled to find the correct code I'll drop it here, perhaps someone will get a hit if they search for the same thing... What I wanted to achieve was to have a DropDownList which automatically...

Did you know that you can find south by drawing a line across the shadow on the moon and then locate the point where the line intersects the ground. My beautiful illustration below hopefully makes it clear how this works. I read this in a Swedish historical...

I needed to select a user while building a form in SharePoint. I hadn't done that before so I searched the web and looked in some books I have and found what I needed, almost... The samples I found didn't quite work, when I moved the code into my own...

A whitepaper which gives all the details how you should plan and deploy Service Pack 1 for SharePoint has just been released. Download and read the document at Planning and Deploying Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a Multi...

I'd like to reiterate a topic which I have previously written about: Long Running Processes. It will be a general discussion which can be applied to any environment or system, but SharePoint will be used as an example. This post is a bit theoretical but...

It's been a while since I created an actual page in SharePoint that provided some actual functionality, i.e. not only content. As I've been working with workflows and information migration for the last six month I had trouble remembering the steps. I...

Here you'll find direct links to downloads and KBs explaining the WSS and SharePoint Server 2007 SP1, the WSS and SharePoint Server SDK Refresh and also the Office Client Suite 2007 SP1. Enjoy! WSS and SharePoint Server SP1 WSS 3.0 SP1 MOSS...

When building a solution using SharePoint and Workflow Foundation your requirements are sometimes that it should be possible track what everyone did and when it was done, in other cases you can forget all about the process once it has completed. Another...

It was just announced that Microsoft will release a new product called Microsoft Search Server 2008, read the announcement on the Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog . There will be two flavours available, the Express and the full version. The Express version...

I've never dived into the details of our Software + Services strategy, lazily assuming it's just another name for Software as a Service (SaaS), SOA, etc. But during a recent brown bag lunch I finally understood that Software + Services vision is a different...

I want to share a problem I had a few month ago when we were indexing the the items in a SharePoint-based application. Initial problem When crawling one of the sites the engine stopped indexing and logged the error "The parameter is incorrect"...

Today it was announced that Microsoft and danish company Phase One will work together to improve the experience of Windows users. Phase One is known both for their superb digital backs for medium format camera (up to 39 MP sensors) as well as their very...

Today is the one year anniversary of my blog and I would like to reflect on the time that has passed. During this year I have had periods with frequent postings and periods with no postings at all, and the topics of the posts have also change quite a...

Begin the owner of a Canon 30D along with a wide range of lenses I often get asked advice on which camera to buy. As I use Canon myself I usually recommend Canon 400D but Nikon also has several cameras with a good price-performance. My argument for buying...

When you develop actions (or workflows) that should be executed when an expiration policy occurs you need to test them, and that is problem in MOSS as the Expiration Policy job only is scheduled to run once a day. Probably you can't sit around waiting...

Recently I was trying to manually install a custom MOSS feature (by running STSADM.EXE from the command line), but I simply couldn't get it to work. The error returned by STSADM was: "Invalid file name. Feature definition files must be named 'feature...

On Thuesday evening this week I went to the first IASA (International Association of Software Architects) meeting in Stockholm to see what it was all about. According to the woman managing registrations there were about 170 people attending the event...

Brian A. Randell has written an article titled Work Item Tracking which deals with programming the TFS object model to access work items. He shows the basics of how you can write your own custom work item client; presenting and editing work item data...

In a new post by J.D. Meier he provides a link to a resource that I was not aware of, it' the patterns & practices: Visual Studio 2005 Team System Guidance on CodePlex. This is not a standard p&p project which delivers reference implementations...

Have you noticed that Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 was made available yesterday?! I was told to look at this link which shows new downloads, and there they are with release date 3/12/2007. At the time of this writing the x86 version has a popularity...

Microsoft has announced HD Photo , formerly known as Windows Media Photo. Bill Crow has much more information about this and you can also read a news article . HD Photo seems to be aimed at competing with JPEG as a format for the future. The best feature...

Having read that Team Explorer connects to TFS using the windows identity of the currently logged in user I actually did not even try connecting to the customer TFS server, for some reason I thought it wouldn't work. However, one day I did try. And...

The second part of the TFS process template customization series talks about changing the name of the process template, customizing areas and iteration and finally how to control which standard work items that are always created when a project is created...

One of the developers in my project had a problem today when she wanted to sync files to her local machine and work there instead. She installed the TFS Client on her machine, configured server name etc. and then started Source Code Explorer. To our surprise...